Lucille

Our water heater, who will forever be known as Lucille, has picked a fine time to leave us with no hot water. We had had heat in the house yesterday for maybe 9 hours and last night was the coldest night yet--39 degrees. Are you singing in tune with me to those the piano bar chants as they're shouted after that famous Kenny Rogers lyric?? So with heat flowing quite nicely through the house, Lucille decided a lil heat wasn't going to trump her cold shoulder exit. Her exit was cold but they say you get used to the pain when you're numb. It's true-after the first cup of ice cold water went over my head this morning I lost all sensation and completely forgot about Lucille. I was too worried about my ghost white hands returning back to their original color.

"LUCILLE"

Our nice new thermostat controller works great, but the elation over this was quickly smashed by Lucille's antics.

Cold Snap

It got really cold here last weekend and most nights this week. It is normally not this cold in S.C. in October! But at 6:30 a.m. the average temperature in the house has been about 56 degrees. brrrrrrr cold! Makes me wish I still wore footed pajamas. And since Old Man Winter is traveling fast, the master bath and back bedroom need to be closed up-ASAP! Which means a weekend of insulation and drywall trump putting down more living room floor. However, Kade's gotten about halfway installing the living room floors and they look fantastic!

Front bedroom furniture-not in its final spot, but its something. Like the shower curtain posing as a window curtain??

The third bedroom--One last reminder for you of what the walls look like before insulation and drywall.

Lil' by lil'

Kade's master plan of "to-do work" takes him from room to room, sometimes at lightning speed, working a little bit here, a little bit there, and of course making lil quick trips to Home Depot every 3 hours or so. In his fits of A.D.D, I take refuge on the porch with my paintbrush or hide in a random Home Depot aisle while he buys & returns the same faucet three times. (Not exaggerating, that actually happened.) But here, in pictures, is this weeks master plan, which I think looks beautiful!!

The painted living room in the color of 30YY/53/125. Or if you go by it's make believe name, which I do, it's called "Summer Sand."

A newly installed fan in the "dive tank."

And...GROUT!!!! And a shower! And a faucet! yay!!

Carving Time!!

On Saturday we decided to quit chipping away on the house and found a few pumpkins at a little produce stand to carve on at Anna's pumpkin carving party instead!

Kade punched out teeny tiny holes (which took about 20 minutes) to make "Buckeyes" only to discover he needed to make the holes bigger for the light to shine through. This extra effort assured that his pumpkin didn't say "uckeye" over a giant "O". Rob's meticulosly carved and scary looking pumpkin lurks in the background.

My tiger paw--we might have a lackluster season but we still have a cute logo.

And here's where Kade carved out the rest of his weekend--beautiful tile in the tub surround!! We made an executive decision to find another tile to use over the previously purchased blue tile due to an estimated delivery date of November 5. Neither one of us wanted to wait that long to shower. We still bathe folks, we just can't use the shower portion of the tub right now.

The little "t" things you see are tile spacers. Not some modern form of tile work Kade wanted to try.

Kade and Elliot are carving out time on Columbus Day to enjoy a few "American" cold ones and some alabaster grout!

Minor variations

Kade and I are both annoying to be around choosing paint--simply ask the Home Depot paint man named Robert. I love a lot of colors and I pour over sample after sample of the slightest color variations and hold them all up to the wall to see what looks the best. Kade, on the other hand, chooses 2 colors. The 2 colors he chooses he "likes" and the others are "fine" which I take to mean he doesn't particularly like them.

Well we needed to choose a living room color and this time we agreed on one! "Nantucket Dune" was the name. Yet our 5 gallon bucket order caused problems last night at Home Depot & what they could or could not match. So, our new living room color has no name-just a code.

30YY/53/125
Whatcha think of our selection?

No CU game = Weekend Work

You're looking at the results of Kade's weekend of hard work installing our new floors in the front bedroom!! Installation commenced only after Kade gathered all of his tools scattered around Pickens county. I was delegated to painting the fascia on the porch and to cutting insulation, both tasks meant I wouldn't be in Kade's way and I could listen to my headphones as loud as I wanted to, drowning out the nail gun and air compressor.

I think the "dots" in my picture are friendly ghosts.

The "dots" in this one are just dust.

furniture!!!!!

Our granite countertop for the guest bath on a make shift base until we find a cool vanity.

The faucet isn't hooked up yet so we're still brushing our teeth over the bath tub...

High hopes or high dive???

What the front bedroom is supposed to look like and does look like in my dreams with my white, fluffy down comforter and white furniture. Please do not be fooled...this is from the October issue of Real Simple, but its a nice preview of the front bedroom, so I ask that you join me in my world of imagination.

Welcome to Kade and Galloway's "Dive Tank"--12 ft of "Lakeshore" blue walls large enough to be a diving well. "Lakeshore" photographs a little brighter than it appears in person, but it is bold.

Behold the new oak hardwood floors floors!!!!! oooohhhhh, aaaaaahhhhh

And a new 6 light dining room chandelier!! Don't worry, the chandelier is sideways, it is not your computer.